Living Legend
Another chapter with a very expected arrival. And some people can't stay quiet, can you? I update whenever I can and if I want to. And your ideas of keeping cannon things... yeah, not going to hear any of them. You should already know that bossing me won't work for you.
Insults gone now we go into the story!
Chapter 5: Family Reunion
A white space pod flew through the blackness of space beyond notch speeds, almost seven months after the Super Saiyan incident in planet Earth. And it was heading straight into that same green-and-blue planet.
The family of three Saiyans were having launch on the outside of the house. After all, it was a nice sunny day to fully enjoy after so much training. They had some giant fishes along with dinosaur meat. And with three hungry male Saiyans nothing would remain but white-clean skeletons.
The munching Goku, however, stopped eating and looked into the sky with apprehensive eyes. Something was coming closer to them.
"Hey dad, can you feel that energy?" Goku asked towards his face-scared eating father, his stare fixed into an incoming energy from space. The time traveler stopped eating before following his son's eyes. Gohan also checked out to feel what his dad and granddad were looking at.
"I can. And it feels almost Saiyan" The scar fighter said, already floating.
"Let's go check" The fighter of Earth suggested, himself and Gohan taking off into the distance at high-speed. The time traveler remained floating for a couple of minutes. Something was going on. Something familiar.
"Could it be?" Bardock thought to himself. But he shook his head. He would have to see it to believe it.
After minutes of silence over a grassy field, the white attack pod landed with a hard thud. The nearby animals scattered around from the epicenter, now a ten feet wide and five feet deep crater in the landscape.
The space's door slid open, a tall man standing up from his sit. He had long black hair that stretched down past his waist, a one-lense pink-colored machine over his left eye. He had black eyes and a brown furry tail coiling around his hips, the common traits for a Saiyan. His body armor was of a light brown color with waist length extra protection. He had brown forearm gauntlets and boots.
He clicked his power-detecting machine. He snickered in arrogance by the showed display.
"Just weaklings all around, not worth my time" The apparent Saiyan commented in annoyance. His eyebrow then rose in confusion "There are a few couples of hundreds floating in the air, weird" The long-haired fighter commented the Earthlings powers in the Lookout. Suddenly, a bigger bip "What? An eight hundred is moving into me and a..." His eyes suddenly widen "Three thousand!" Now his eyes were staring into the sky for the two beings with those readings "One of them must be Kakarot. But how the Hell did he get that kind of strength in such a backwater planet?!"
The father and son raised-on-Earth Saiyans landed, both in orange fighting clothes from the Turtle school. The new comer took a couple of seconds to fully realize the image in front of him.
"Uh, Kakarot, you look just like our father" The elder brother commented, first staring at his young brother and then looking at the short-sized long-haired hybrid kid "And you got a brat too" The long-haired fighter asked mildly curious. Saiyan hybrids were uncommon but the new invader wasn't going to look the gift horse in the mouth. Specially if the kid could be useful for their cause "The more the merrier but not enough to empty this planet of their weak inhabitants apparently"
"Who are you?" Goku asked straight to the point not faced by the taunting remarks "Your energy feels like mine so I can say you are a Saiyan too?" The new comer almost rose an eyebrow in curiosity. His brother knew more that he let on. Quite a rare quality for a Saiyan.
"Well said, Kakarot. Apparently you didn't bump your head as I first assumed" The long-haired fighter replied. His eyes were looking with anger towards the Earth warrior "But answer me, what were you doing all these years? You were supposed to destroy the people and leave the planet for selling"
"That's barbaric!" The Martial Arts Champion shot back out-loud "I would never do something like that!" The new comer almost facepalmed. His brother did bump his head after all.
"Really brother, you wouldn't?" The armored fighter asked rhetorically, surprising Goku and Gohan by the new piece of information. "The name's Raditz and I'm your elder brother" The also pure-blooded Saiyan stated elated. If he had to beat his brother and apparent nephew to make them understand how the Planet Trade worked, then so be it. But three thousand units of power...well, not an easy fight on that front. However, before he had come up with any plan of action, his scouter started beeping even higher "What's that, another powerful energy?" His eyes widen out of their sockets by the new displayed numbers "Ten thousand?!" For a moment he thought it was malfunctioning. But he knew it couldn't. The scouter was brand new. He had stolen it from one of Frieza's fresh shipments for his élite unit.
The new Saiyan saw his father dropping from the sky and gracefully landing in front of him in similar attire to his brother and nephew only pitch-black in color. But it was impossible. Unless it was a ghost. But he looked real. And had a measurable power level. Ghosts didn't have power, did they?
"Father?" Raditz asked in utter shock. His eyes harden with a death glare. He wasn't going to fall for that. The planet must had some sort of spell to confuse him "This is a trick! Some magic stuff! What did you do to me?!"
"It's no magic, Raditz. I'm your father" Bardock said towards his first-born. The scar fighter never thought he would see him again. His visions had shown that he worked for Frieza and that he would die fighting Kakarot.
"But it's impossible!" The first-born bellowed "Lord Frieza told us the planet exploded by a meteor strike and that no other Saiyan survived"
"Frieza?" The time traveler asked with obvious mockery "Do you really believe everything what that effeminate lizard bastard says?" The derogatory comment about the Lord of the Northern Galaxy was something Goku and Gohan were used to by now. But Raditz wasn't. He was obviously astounded by the fact his father was both alive and publicly insulting Frieza. Even if the lizard wasn't around, the Saiyan soldier wasn't used to hear insults. Out loud that was.
"We were his slaves before you were even born, Raditz. He feared us, he feared our power! That's why he destroyed our planet himself!" Bardock's comment was like a cold water bucket while sleeping.
"Vegeta was right" Raditz mumbled in a whisper after the revelation.
"Vegeta? The king survived?" The scar fighter asked. Raditz shook his head.
"Not the king, his son. He, General Nappa and myself are the last Saiyans" He thought for a brief second before amending that statement "Well, we were. I found out about my brother Kakarot and decided to go fetch him. Vegeta and Nappa also found another stranded Saiyan in a distant planet and we were going to unite the five of us and overthrown Frieza"
"Like if that could work" Bardock stated. While other Saiyans surviving sounded good, Bardock knew that they wouldn't exactly cooperate "We are going to destroy Frieza, your friends will only be a nuisance"
"But you can help us if you want" Goku suggested towards his elder brother.
"I... I mean..." Raditz stammered a response. The offer sounded good for him. He would get to fight strong people, who were also his family. With luck, he might even learn some techniques and increase his strength. And Frieza would die. He had personal grudge against the lizard. Always with sniding comments directed to him for being the weakest.
"Betraying us already, Raditz?" A voice said from the pink-lensed scouter. The low-class fighter felt a chill going down his spine by the voice.
"Ve...Vegeta, no wait, I was" The Saiyan stuttered in response but was cut short by the more imposing voice of the Royal prince.
"You were going to go against all we've planned for years just for some stupid family nostalgia" The voice of the Saiyan prince made Raditz shake in fear "Fine by me, weakling. You and your dear family have a month before we blast their precious backwater hovel into space dust. Enjoy your existence while you still have one" The communication ended as abruptly as it had started.
"Dam that bastard!" The long-haired Saiyan exploded in anger, his fists tightening. He now shut off the scouter's communication leaving only the power reading.
"What happen?" The youngster Gohan asked towards his apparent uncle.
"Vegeta thinks I betrayed him and is coming here in a month!" Raditz exclaimed in anger "So we are as good as dead!"
"You should have more faith" Goku told his new-found brother. The fighter shook his head.
"Even the four of us cannot equal two of them. Less three now that they've found another Saiyan that is obviously stronger than myself" The long-haired Saiyan stated crestfallen. As hard as it was to admit, his nickname of 'Weakling Raditz' was rather well-deserved.
"Really Raditz?" Bardock commented and looked at Goku, who in turn looked at Gohan. Both nodded with smirks of confidence. Before Raditz knew what hit him, a power surge beeped in his scouter. The three Saiyans in front of him were suddenly unleashing even stronger readings than before.
"Amazing, the kid is almost as strong as me. Kakarot is at six thousand! He's at Nappa's level. And father..." His eyes almost bursted from the sockets "Twenty thousand?! Bu... but that's as strong as Vegeta!" The power-up finished for the time being, Goku and Gohan at their peak while Bardock was suppressed to a fifth of his normal self.
"How did you get that kind of power?" Raditz almost stammered but he still had some pride and dignity to maintain.
"That 'power', is only a hundredth of my true strength, son" Bardock stated with pride. It was true after all. Super Saiyan had its perks. But it also came with a downside as Bardock had already found out.
The long-haired fighter was gasping his mouth in shock. If what his father was saying was true then he could be the Legendary Super Saiyan. Vegeta was obsessed with that Legend, always saying that he would claim it for himself. For Raditz, it was sadly an unachievable goal. His power never proved to be that big above the average low-class. But if his father was indeed a Super Saiyan, then it existed the possibility that he himself and maybe Kakarot and his son were also capable of reaching the same height of unbridled power.
"You know, when I said we couldn't win, I think I was overreacting a bit" Raditz sweat-dropped and rubbed his temple.
"I bet you were" Goku stated jokingly half grinning to his brother. While they hadn't started the best way, The Martial Arts Champion was willing to give his brother a chance like he did with his father "Let's go. We'll have to join all the fighters of Earth for this one"
"Uncle!" The young Gohan jumped towards his uncle, who was rather surprised by the unexpected action. Normally people run away in fear from him.
After a quick flight, the Saiyan family arrived in the Lookout. While descending they could see the humans sparring over the white surface while Kami supervised them.
"So these are your special Forces?" Raditz asked to his young brother with some sarcasm in his eyes. Goku nodded.
"And also my friends" Goku explained though he realised that there was also a powerful female in the group he didn't recognize at all "Except for the lady. She is kind of new to me"
The aliens landed and the sparring ended.
"So Goku, who is the main man?" Krillin asked his old friend with a joke.
"He's Raditz, my brother" Goku casually replied the question. The others, however, almost gawked at the fact Goku now had a brother. Who, by the way, was an alien too.
"Look, we didn't come here for a chat. We have to tell you something" The palm-haired Bardock stated and shut everyone up.
After a couple of minutes, Bardock finished explaining the new unnerving situation to everyone. While alien invasion wasn't something one heard too oftenly, it was also kind of normal for the fighters of Earth.
"Hey Kami, do you think Piccolo knows about the Saiyans?" Goku asked his mentor.
"Don't worry Goku. All that I know, Piccolo will know too" The green Guardian replied towards his student.
"This is suicide" Raditz flatly stated after checking the Earthling's power levels "Even with our father helping us these humans don't have enough power to even dent Nappa. Not to mention I know Hell of nothing about the new Saiyan Vegeta wanted to recruit"
"That's the spirit!" Inuzama encouraged the new Saiyan, who merely rose a sarcastic eyebrow towards her. The others also looked at her with a strange glare. She shrugged her shoulders "What? At least he's honest" The others ignored the comment.
"Sorry Raditz, but you do know Bardock is holding back?" Tien asked towards the new comer. All of them had felt an amazing power months ago and knew that Bardock had a massive power-up form that could make him utterly unbeatable.
"Of course I know. But how powerful can he be?" The long-haired warrior asked and looked at his father. Bardock looked just a tad amused by his son's lack of energy sensing. He was so blind to the very-obvious truth that was literally in front of him "What? You must be a fifty thousand at the most. A lot for sure but nothing next to Frieza" The others looked one another. They didn't know how energy could be measured but fifty thousand sounded too weak to be true.
The scar fighter snickered slightly before stepping forward.
"Just be ready to swallow your own words, kid" The father said towards his first-born with a proud smile. His eyes focused and momentary went bright green.
"Oh man, here comes the awesomeness!" The blonde female fighter stated with glee, sitting on a newly materialized chair and eating some popcorn. The others almost sweat-dropped by her comments but refrained the instinct. They were kind of used to it.
The scar alien started powering up, the numbers in his son' scouter raising by the second. By the time Bardock had finished increasing to the top of his normal self, Raditz was indeed swallowing his words. The units reached one hundred thousand. That was almost in the Ginyu range.
But the Saiyan father wasn't over yet. He screamed in power, new swirling energies bursting around him in golden flames. His hair again spiked up defying gravity. The massive hurricane wind almost sent everyone flying away. The Lookout was almost splitted in half, the white tilling scorched by the burning ki at Bardock's feet.
"That...that is...the..." The long-haired alien stuttered incoherent sentences. Inuzama came from behind him and slapped Raditz in the back of the head. Amazingly, it worked. "The Super Saiyan!"
"Surprised?" Goku asked a tad joking to his brother.
Raditz had shut off his scouter a while ago. As new as it could be, so much power would make the gadget explode in a second. The same couldn't be said about his mind, which had been blown out of the window a couple of minutes ago.
"Maybe we have a tiny chance of winning" Raditz stated. Now everybody sweat-dropped by his antics. First depressing and then convinced of winning. He was a weird bipolar.
"Goku, can I beat him to a pulp?" Inuzama asked with full honesty towards Goku. Raditz was cute in her eyes but also had some bitchy attitude that needed to be beaten off. The Earth-raised alien rubbed his head in confusion by the out-of-the-blue question.
"Um, okay?" The orange-dressed fighter replied. Before Goku had seen it, she already sped off and was on top of Raditz, tackling him away.
"Is this something common?" Goku asked towards Yamcha, who briskly nodded.
"You get used to it eventually" The former bandit replied with a shrug of shoulders.
Despite the weird display between his son and the woman, Bardock remained transformed looking down at his golden-brimming hands. While the Super Saiyan transformation was outstanding, almost intoxicating, it had some sort of disadvantage. As soon as he had transformed, his energy reserves slowly but surely started slipping away. And if he was to defeat Frieza he would need his power at his full maximum. Unleashing his energies and wasting them would not get him anywhere.
His thoughts were cut short when a whirling sound echoed from behind the pack of warriors. It was an aircraft and Bulma was in command. The blue-haired female gracefully landed on the white tilling of the Lookout. Bardock returned to normal.
"Hey guys!" The blue-haired science woman greeted his long-time friends. Except for Raditz and Inuzama, who were still engaged in mêlée.
"Bulma?" Goku asked towards her friend "What are you doing here?" He was happy to see her again but the question was what she was doing there.
"And how did you find us?" Tien asked. As far as he knew Kami's Lookout couldn't be reached by normal ships. But knowing Bulma, she did have her ways to get around with things nobody knew.
"Well Goku and all of you traveled to Korin for Senzu Beans, so I quickly hazard a guess in where the Lookout was" The genius woman stated. Her sight was turned when she saw a long-haired man with an armor wrestling against a blonde woman dressed in a red Gi.
"Should I ask?" Bulma asked ironically towards her fellows, who shocked their heads. For some reason, she could already say that the bizarre display was something she would have to get used to.
"Even so, is there a reason for your visit?" Kami asked the human female.
"Yes, I wanted to tell the guys that I finally created a new gravity machine" Bulma said in happiness.
"What's that? A machine for overweighted people?" Inuzama asked, still hand-shackled in the scuffle with Raditz, who as much as he tried, couldn't get free from the beauty's clutch. Maybe because subconsciously he didn't want to.
"Um, no. It's just a machine that can replicate the Earth gravity and increase it" The CapsuleCorp CEO answered the question towards the female. But the blonde fighter didn't hear the tone.
"Anyhow, I thought that you guys would want to use it" The female stated towards his friends.
"Thanks Bulma" Goku hugged his friend, who blushed a deep shade of red. She was really close to Goku but maybe he wasn't realizing it.
"It will come handy with our current problem" Bardock flatly stated from behind his son. He could be the most powerful fighter but he wasn't going to sit idly while the others improved. He had a special training to do himself.
"So you think we can use it too?" Tien asked. If there was an invasion he was going to train. All the months with Kami wouldn't go to waste.
"I already made two sets. They can only go up to ten times gravity but I'm already working for them to go higher" Bulma stated.
"Okay guys, this is it" The palm-haired de-facto leader exclaimed towards his pack of friends "We must be ready to face these Saiyans before..." Behind him both Raditz and Inuzama were still rolling around in an entangled mess of punches "Would you two stop already?"
"What did we do?" Inuzama asked innocently. But her expression said that she wasn't sorry at all.
"Are you for real? You jumped on me out of nowhere" The long-haired Saiyan retorted while dusting himself off.
"Actually, I was right here, so I was somewhere" The blonde female replied matter-of-factly. Now Raditz facepalmed. No wonder Kakarot lost his mind. That female was deranged to the full meaning of the word.
"Let's just start training before the couple go for another round of foreplay" Bardock said to everyone with a joking tone, the others laughing. Except for Raditz, who was blushed to the skull.
The pack of warriors said goodbye to one another and took their respective paths into their training grounds. Soon they would have to face one of their biggest challenges in their lives.
While the Saiyans flew away, Raditz already started ranting about crazy women.
"That blonde bitch is crazy!" The brown-armored alien yelled out-loud "Who does randomly jump on people and starts punching their guts off?" The orange-dressed martial artist snickered next to his brother.
"I think you like her" Goku replied with a joking smile.
"Says the blind guy with a hot science friend" The first-born shot back. The full-blooded Saiyan instead of blushing kicked Raditz in the back. A second later the brothers in blood were already attacking each other. Goku had an obvious advantage though.
"Grandpa, should we stop them?" Gohan asked towards Bardock, who shook his head. The two were watching the fight back and forth.
"You never lived on Planet Vegeta, kid. Fighting is the first bond you will ever make" The elder alien replied to his grandchild with a wise tone.
"Do you have any brothers?" The demialien asked in curiosity. The black-dressed man folded his arms over his chest.
"To be fair Gohan, I can't even remember who my parents were" The scar warrior replied in sad honesty. As far as he knew, his generation had been bred for fighting and not out of a real desire of having a family. While Bardock was already accustomed to it, he appreciated that his son and hopefully his grandson didn't turn out that way.
Notes from Chapter 5:
Yes, I cut the time training for only a month. But the fighters are already powerful so making them train for a year seems pointless.
It seems stupid that Raditz, being older than his brother was barely one thousand two hundred. Really, what the Hell? That's why I changed his power level.
Don't ask for explanations about Inuzama. I already said she was kind of crazy so whatever she does can't be explained. Like the Joker, she does 'things'.
Power Levels:
Bardock:
After training: 100,000
Restricted with Raditz: 10,000
Showing some power: 20,000
Super Saiyan: 5 million
Goku:
After training: 6,000
Restricted with Raditz: 3,000
Gohan:
After training: 2,000
Holding back: 800
Piccolo:
Weights on: 2,000
Raditz: 2,500
Inuzama:
Weights on: 1,000
Without weights: 1,500
Tien:
Weights on: 900
Without weights: 1,400
Yamcha:
Weights on: 800
Without weights: 1,300
Krillin:
Weights on: 850
Without weights: 1,350
Chaotzu:
Weights on: 700
Without weights: 1,200
And so the countdown has begun for Earth and its inhabitants. Will the Special Forces be ready for it?